"God there's two of them" "I thought central city was the fun one" "is that a bird? no it's a plane" "bee careful, bad pun sorry, just don't die" "you just died, maybe you should order in tonight""oh thank god the food's here" "BOOM! Drop the mike!...metaphorical cause I don't have a mike" "either my fear of bees is gone or it's much much worse". I think this episode wins the award of greatest one liners in a single episode. This is All Star Team Up, which sees Ray Palmer & Felicity Smoak arrive in Central City to improve the ATOM suit and to catch a crazy scientist who builds killer robot bees...only on The Flash. Also Eddie struggles to keep Barry's secret from Iris and Barry can't decide whether or not he can trust Cisco and Caitlin.So let's talk about the main plot of the episode...bees I guess. It's nothing more than a villain of the week, a filler plot to give the characters something to do apart from sit around and chat. But i've said it before, my favourite parts of this show are when it's just characters talking to each other, and this is another example of that. Ray and Felicity fit perfectly in this show, and seeing the different relationships and conversations that they have amongst each other like Ray & Cisco being good buds, it was the highlight of the show. But then I worry that it might be too good, because if this episode proved anything, it's that Felicity and Ray most definitely belong on Flash than they do Arrow, they have better chemistry, their characters are more akin to this style of writing and the over the top nature of Flash is perfect for them. Also this episode supports my view of Felicity and Ray being a better couple than Felicity and Ollie, and i have a feeling the writers of Flash think that too. So if these two ever want to come back to Central City, they are more than welcome.
Then there is the subplot of this weeks episode, Iris & Eddie, which again, proves that Iris is the worst character in the show, before she was just useless, now she's crossed over into annoying. Iris is upset that Eddie is keeping a big secret from her, fair enough, but the way how they handle it was the worst way possible. First of all, it's not Eddie's secret he's keeping, it's Barry's, they could tell her that and then she'll lay off Eddie and start pestering Barry. But the worst part is at the end when she says he can tell her his secret of she'll break up with him; now here's a little bit of relationship advice for y'all NEVER GIVE AN ULTIMATUM. If you're dating someone and they say "do this or i'm breaking up with you" then break up with them, that is not someone who you should be dating who is willing to threaten you with something like that, so my advice for Eddie: dump the bitch.
Finally there is the story progression, Barry tells Cisco and Caitlin about their theory on Dr Wells, also Cisco is able to remember Wells killing him...even though Barry went back in time and that never happened (I'm aparently able to buy killer robot bees, but not repressed memories of an event that technically didn't even happen). Now the actual story progression here was relatively small in comparison to other episodes but the focus here was more of in connection to the theme of this weeks episode, trust & betrayal. Barry isn't sure if he can trust Cisco and Caitlin, which fair enough, they've been with Dr Wells for years now, it's entirely possible they would take his side over Barry, so yet again, this show doesn't force the emotional conflict like a lot of other melodramas like to. Again my biggest problem with how this was handled is the lack of subtlety, but then again, this show likes to be so blatant with it's messages that if they ever did try to be subtle then it would probably go over my head even though my reflexes are too quick and I would catch it (That's right, I just made a Marvel reference in a DC review, drop the mike...metaphorically of course).
Overall, this was a solid episode, the highlights were as always the interactions between the characters, though the story did feel like a lot of filler. Though when Cisco said they were off to karaoke, please tell me I wasn't the only one who wanted to see that, I want my musical episode dammit! And again, my favourite parts are when they're just hanging out, so i would definitely watch an episode of just them at karaoke. I give this episode an 8/10.
-Danny
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